Do you believe in equality? If anyone could make a case for equality it would be me, because I said that I was one with the Father. Yet I also did not consider equality a thing to be grasped, but emptied myself and took on the form of a servant. Do you find that discussions of equality lead to grasping assertions of equal worth? But grasping is an unattractive and ungracious quality, and it is not necessary in my Kingdom where other dynamics prevail. For I promised that if you humble yourself then I would exalt you in due time, and also that the first would be last and the last first. If you believe this then become as a little child and a servant, and see what happens.

Is your heart soft and sensitive? You may think of this as a gender related quality, and expect to find it more often among women than among men. Yet when I lamented the hardness of heart of my people it was not gender specific, nor was it later when I said today if you will hear my voice harden not your heart. Yet again when I said that the sacrifices acceptable to me were a broken heart, a broken and a contrite spirit it was not targeted just at men or at women. Do not impose your concepts of gender stereotypes where I do not. A broken and contrite heart is the acceptable sacrifice for all my people. 

How do other people discern my presence in you? I gave you a commission to spread my message, and promised that I would dwell within you, and that my Spirit would go before you. Do you see these things as being related? I have placed my light within you, and told you to let your light so shine before men that they may glorify me (not you). My presence in you is not for you alone, but that you may be a blessing to the nations. Do you think that your work in carrying out the Great Commission is only a matter of intellectual persuasion? I want you to realize that it is active in every dimension of humanity, and is primarily spiritual. How do people see me in you? 

Does the government keep a file on you? Do retailers learn about you by monitoring your purchases? My word records an incident in which a would-be miracle worker admonishes an unclean spirit in the name of Jesus of whom Paul preaches. The spirit responded that he knew of Jesus and of Paul, but not of him, and this incident did not end well for this man. You have a spiritual adversary. Are you  concerned that he keeps a file on you? Or should you be more concerned if he didn’t? it would be nothing to brag of if you didn’t cause him enough trouble to notice you, but I can protect you from his attacks.